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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

1.78 Million Carry Intestinal Parasites
By gender, males showed a relatively higher ratio of 3.2 percent than 1.6 percent for females. "Soil-carrying germs have almost been disappearing. But an eating habit of raw freshwater fish remains problematic," a KCDC official said.
By Bae Keun-min, Korea Times (May 10, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200505/kt2005051015425068040.htm

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

Is that still the average hagwon monthly pay?

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

Ha! Good! Now I can win a playful argument I've been having with my K. husband who swears that eating all that raw fish is healthy.
I wonder what's the cure? Kimchi?

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

No, silly, the soju is what kills the germs!

mysteriousdeltarays · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 9:17 am Post subject:

That's 1.78 million peoplw. And I believe that is a vast underestimation. I suspect that they are refering to ascarasis giant round worm infestation. That's now a minor problem. Whipworm and hookworm are still very big.

Although they have made vast strides.

shakuhachi · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Sydney

bossaco · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: jongro-gu

maybe they're referring to helicobacter (sp?)... i have a friend who's married to a korean who has that bacteria in his stomach... ewww!

I_Am_Wrong · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: whatever

unless you take special pills to kill the worms...pretty much everyone has them. Some of them even have a special symbiotic relationship with us that is mutually beneficial.

The Chewbacca Defense · Joined: 29 May 2004 Location: The ROK and a hard place

I when I order pizza, I have to order 2; one to feed me and the other to feed my worm! Shocked

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

Helicobacter is the bacteria that causes most ulcers and can be cured with a 2 week course of tablets. It's not a "korean thing"

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

desultude · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:

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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that for the first time in three decades more people appear to be afflicted with parasitic worms than they were in previous findings.

"But there are people who still enjoy raw fish from the freshwaters which is a cause of liver fluke infections." Patients with liver fluke infection may experience nausea, indigestion, diarrhea and weakness. If not treated immediately, it could lead to infections in the gall bladder and could possibly cause fatal blood poisoning. South Gyeongsang province, near Nakdong River in particular, showed an infection rate of 16.3 percent, which was the highest in the country. Daejeon, near Geum River, had the second greatest prevalence with 13.3 percent of the people affected. Seoul showed a 0.9 percent rate of parasitic worm infection.
by Shin Sung-sik, JoongAng Daily
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200505/10/200505102242069939900090409041.html